Christopher Lin ’19 Named Peggy Browning Fellow
Temple Law student Christopher Lin LAW ’19 has been chosen for a prestigious Peggy Browning Fellowship. The Peggy Browning Fund provides law students dedicated to…
Focus on: Social Justice Lawyering with Professor Jennifer Lee
Editor’s note: At Temple Law School, student advocates can hone skills, explore their professional identities, and work with community members in pursuit of solutions to…
Advocacy Update: Sheller Center’s Report on Affordable Housing Goes National
Danger of the Opt Out: Strategies for Preserving Section 8 Project-Based Housing in Philadelphia, a report prepared earlier this year by Justice Lab students Rita Burns, Sara…
Advocacy Update: Sheller Center Students Help Craft City Resolution Recognizing Undocumented Workers
Rebecca Daily LAW ’18 and Ashley Rotchford LAW ’18 helped the Popular Alliance for Undocumented Workers’ Rights draft a resolution recognizing all workers regardless of…
Making Sense of the Legal Headlines: New Lecture Series from the Sheller Center for Social Justice
Members of the Temple Law faculty, working under the auspices of the Sheller Center for Social Justice, held a series of lectures and panel discussions throughout…
Advocates from the Sheller Center’s Justice Lab Win Reprieve for Families Charged with Costs of Juvenile Incarceration
The City of Philadelphia has announced an immediate stop to the practice of collecting the costs of juvenile incarceration from struggling families, and that it…
Advocacy Update: City Council Hearing this Week on Charging Parents for Their Child’s Incarceration
Third-year Temple Law student Wesley Stevenson will testify at a hearing before Philadelphia City Council on the impact of fines and fees levied by the juvenile…
Advocacy Update: Justice Lab Students’ Report Prompts Fresh Look at Punitive Philly Practice
Earlier this year, Justice Lab students Wesley Stevenson, Kelsey Grimes, and Sela Cowger, in collaboration with the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project, began to investigate Philadelphia’s…
Advocacy Update: Sheller Center Students File Urgent Appeal with the UN
John Farrell, Anthony Sierzega, Mariya Tsalkovich, all law students with the Social Justice Lawyering Clinic, worked with Juntos to draft an appeal filed by fifty-nine…
Advocacy Update: Department of Justice Cites Sheller Center Language Access Study
A newly released report by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Language Access in State Courts, cites Barriers to Justice for Non-English Speakers in the…